BINGO! That did it! Thanks for that pickup, much appreciated!

Is the virtual disk drive off? Did you manage to bypass the message stating that the file isn't a tape image? Do you see the file with the number of blocks when pressing ALT+T ? You should be able to CLOAD and RUN it with no hassle. Virtual drive is off. I can see the message that says the file isn...

Welcome! I am also 40 and a lifelong Atari fanatic! I am happy to see that there's a healthy underground of Atari nuts...I still own my 400 (and 2600), and I have a ton of disks that I need to go through!

I am trying to load some old basic games I'd played when younger...Trench, Camel, etc. So I loaded DOS, warm reset, got the ready prompt and tried the LOAD "D1:xxx.BAS" - error pops up. I've tried a few different DOS and Machine versions, with no luck. Atari Frog - I tried to use the ".cas" to ".bas...

Tried that - getting error 172 (I forget my error codes, it's been like 30years!). No dice - still not working...must be something I am doing wrong.

I've searched the forums, seen the suggestions - nothing seems to work. Running Atari800Win Plus, any mode, and it crashes if I load a basic game using the "attach tape, override *.cas with *.bas" method. If I load from D: I get a 146 error. What am I missing??? Thanks in advance - great site! Still...